[UA] Infantomancy meets Hawthorne

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

(From the mind of Kevin Elmore:)
> An interesting thing about regaining lost youth is
> that
> once you're a child again, you're not an adult, so
> you
> cannot practice this school.  I suppose in theory,
> the
> Youth could pick up the school later and live
> forever in
> this cycle.
> 
> This could make for an interesting NPC.  For
> whatever
> reason, the Youth (now a 12-year-old child who has
> been
> around for 300 years) witnesses his foster parents
> savagely
> murdered.  Such an attack warps his mind, and he no
> longer
> can regain that innocence.  Thus, he can never pick
> up the
> school.
> 

My favorite view on the Fountain of Youth Theme is
that it gives you a second chance, but you make the
same mistakes all over again.  Taking a page from /Dr.
Heidegger's Experiment/ (and watering it down with
some /Momento/), you could have that same youth
turning to the PCs for help in deciphering some
adult-oriented clues.  The clues turn out to be the
older version of this kid sending a message to
himself.

The warning is simple:  You can't regain your lost
innocence, but you can forget everything you ever new
and live through the traumas of childhood over and
over again.  Get off the cycle before I rejuvenate again!

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
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